Monday, April 04, 2005
Here is our speech for court
THE SPEECH FOR THE JUDGE
Good afternoon Your Honor.
Thank you for the honor of meeting with you today.
My name is William DeMichieli and this is my wife, Michele.
My wife and I come from Indianapolis, Indiana USA, where we were both born and have lived most of our lives.
On April 11th, we will celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary, and we have lived in our current home throughout our life together.
I am a manager of a large retail store and Michele is a full time stay-at-home mother, who works part-time writing post placement reports for international adoptions.
We chose to adopt from Kazakhstan for the simple reason that we have already done so successfully.
In October 2001 we adopted a sonderul little girl from Taraz, who we named Abbie. She is 4 now and she is the most important thing in our lives.
While we were here, we were very impressed with the kindness and grace of the people that we met and with the pride that they take in their cultural heritage. The people that we met made us proud to be the parents of a Kazakh daughter. .
Our families were both very excited to find out that we were returning to Kazakhstan to find our son.
Both of our families are working together to care for Abbie while we are here.
Todd’s sister and brother-in-law adopted a 3 year old girl from Astana in 2002. Sarah is amazing and our daughter considers her to be her best friend.
We hope both of our children attend college.
We feel that it is of great importance that our children share the same heritage. As they are growing and learning about who they are, we look forward to the day tht we bring them back here.
We went to the Baby House for the first time on March 19th. At that time the orphanage Director showed us several children. All of them seemed happy and we were impressed with the quality of care that they were receiving.
But when they brought Kairat to us, we knew that we had found our son and the last piece of our family.
He was so serious, and he closely watched every move that was made. His beautiful brown eyes look just like our daughter’s. We didn’t need to look any more.
We have visited with him twice a day for the past two weeks and he now has a place in our hearts that only our own child could fill.
He is so smart and so funny and so sweet natured.
We simply adore him.
Unless I am very much mistaken, he seems to adore us too.
He is a part of our family now.
We would ask your honor to change his last name to DeMichieli.
His big sister is earerly awaiting his arrival and we now that we cannot leave here without her brother and our son.
We are imploring your honor to allow us to start our life as a family.
Thank you.
Good afternoon Your Honor.
Thank you for the honor of meeting with you today.
My name is William DeMichieli and this is my wife, Michele.
My wife and I come from Indianapolis, Indiana USA, where we were both born and have lived most of our lives.
On April 11th, we will celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary, and we have lived in our current home throughout our life together.
I am a manager of a large retail store and Michele is a full time stay-at-home mother, who works part-time writing post placement reports for international adoptions.
We chose to adopt from Kazakhstan for the simple reason that we have already done so successfully.
In October 2001 we adopted a sonderul little girl from Taraz, who we named Abbie. She is 4 now and she is the most important thing in our lives.
While we were here, we were very impressed with the kindness and grace of the people that we met and with the pride that they take in their cultural heritage. The people that we met made us proud to be the parents of a Kazakh daughter. .
Our families were both very excited to find out that we were returning to Kazakhstan to find our son.
Both of our families are working together to care for Abbie while we are here.
Todd’s sister and brother-in-law adopted a 3 year old girl from Astana in 2002. Sarah is amazing and our daughter considers her to be her best friend.
We hope both of our children attend college.
We feel that it is of great importance that our children share the same heritage. As they are growing and learning about who they are, we look forward to the day tht we bring them back here.
We went to the Baby House for the first time on March 19th. At that time the orphanage Director showed us several children. All of them seemed happy and we were impressed with the quality of care that they were receiving.
But when they brought Kairat to us, we knew that we had found our son and the last piece of our family.
He was so serious, and he closely watched every move that was made. His beautiful brown eyes look just like our daughter’s. We didn’t need to look any more.
We have visited with him twice a day for the past two weeks and he now has a place in our hearts that only our own child could fill.
He is so smart and so funny and so sweet natured.
We simply adore him.
Unless I am very much mistaken, he seems to adore us too.
He is a part of our family now.
We would ask your honor to change his last name to DeMichieli.
His big sister is earerly awaiting his arrival and we now that we cannot leave here without her brother and our son.
We are imploring your honor to allow us to start our life as a family.
Thank you.
# posted by demicmic @ 11:04 AM 
